Jesse Lee Kercheval
@jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Pinned
French Girl — Fieldmouse Press
by Jesse Lee Kercheval Told in a series of stories that blend boldly expressionistic and dreamlike colors with spare and unflinching text, French Girl is Jesse Lee Kercheval’s debut graphic memoir....
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My graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL is out from @fieldmousepress.bsky.social ! You can order it here: www.fieldmouse.press/shop/p/frenc...
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Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...
Irregular Heart - The Rumpus
When she was pregnant with me, my mother said she could see her future like a train, coming to run her down.
therumpus.net
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm
So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So lovely to be back in the Comics Room today with fellow Lynda Barry students and alums watercoloring some of my teeny travel sketches—
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...
Issue 27.1
Featuring the writing of Emma Bolden, Rachel Cline, Shannon Cram, Jim Daniels, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Beth Ann Fennelly, Allison Field Bell, Gary Fincke, Jesse Lee Kercheval, L.C. Killingsworth, Ase…
riverteethjournal.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...
What Kinds of Birds We Are
While visiting her older sister in an assisted living facility, Jesse Lee Kercheval encounters a profusion of birds who remind her of her sister and herself.
oldster.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...
My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My short story collection Underground Women is 6 years old today! “I’ve loved Jesse Lee Kercheval’s work for decades and am over the moon about Underground Women. It is so very timely: it is smart, and simmering under the surface with feminine rage.”—Lauren Groff uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5859.htm
Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...
What Kinds of Birds We Are
While visiting her older sister in an assisted living facility, Jesse Lee Kercheval encounters a profusion of birds who remind her of her sister and herself.
oldster.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thanks, Oldster! oldster.substack.com/p/what-kinds...
Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...
Issue 27.1
Featuring the writing of Emma Bolden, Rachel Cline, Shannon Cram, Jim Daniels, Chelsea B. DesAutels, Beth Ann Fennelly, Allison Field Bell, Gary Fincke, Jesse Lee Kercheval, L.C. Killingsworth, Ase…
riverteethjournal.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Thanks to @riverteeth.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Ten Things to Save From a Fire." Buy a copy or subscribe here (support our literary journals!): riverteethjournal.com/print-issues...
Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Thanks to The Rumpus for publishing my graphic memoir piece "Irregular Heart" therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...?
Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 14, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Thanks, Black Warrior Review! bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks to FivePoints and Alicia Raines for this interview with me. And for publishing my graphic narrative "Birds" in their latest issue! fivepoints.gsu.edu/the-art-of-g...
"The Art of Graphic Narratives," An Interview with Jesse Lee Kercheval - Five Points - A Journal of Literature and Art
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, and graphic novelist. Her graphic essay, “Birds,” was published in our most recent issue of Five Points (Vol. 24. No. 1), and h...
fivepoints.gsu.edu
October 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thanks to FivePoints and Alicia Raines for this interview with me. And for publishing my graphic narrative "Birds" in their latest issue! fivepoints.gsu.edu/the-art-of-g...
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
I follow @jesselkercheval.bsky.social's work with great interest. This one really transported me! Check it out.
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I follow @jesselkercheval.bsky.social's work with great interest. This one really transported me! Check it out.
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
back in the studio after the book tour!
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
back in the studio after the book tour!
Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...
Irregular Heart - The Rumpus
When she was pregnant with me, my mother said she could see her future like a train, coming to run her down.
therumpus.net
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thanks to @therumpus.net for publishing my graphic narrative "Irregular Heart". therumpus.net/2025/11/07/i...
back in the studio after the book tour!
November 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
back in the studio after the book tour!
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Another amazing graphic story by @jesselkercheval.bsky.social. Love it!
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Another amazing graphic story by @jesselkercheval.bsky.social. Love it!
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Beautiful graphic memoir piece here from @jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Beautiful graphic memoir piece here from @jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Reposted by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Thanks, Black Warrior Review for publishing my new graphic memoir piece "Pink"--about silent movies, living in color and the sadness of my sister fading from my life. bwr.ua.edu/special-art-...?
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